The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-01-20
ESSAYS ON "BOY."
An Interesting Animal Faithfully
Described.

The teaeher in one Of our intermedi-
ate schools one day last week had les
son in language. giving for the subject
the word Boy" the scholars to write
what they could about the subject, and
this without assistance and without any
time for preparation. Following are
two specimens of the compositions,
written by two small bows, one 9 and
one 10 years of age, and they showed a
good idea of punctuation and the spell
ing excellent, but two or three words ia
each being spelled wrong. and those
the shortest and more common words:
A boy is Il b'ped animal, one to three
feet high. Some BOYS are wise, intelli-
gent, dull, bad, good. kind, gentle.
cross, unkind. stupid, etc. Some boys
are very kind to their brothers and sis
tiers, My brother is very kind to me.
Some boys grow up to be great men,
some mayors Of cities, and some own
great mills and stores. BOYS who
study when they are small become the
greatest men. Some boys who do not
study when they are young. grow men.
are poor, and have to go out with
cutters and streets HOLIDAYS some
boys sell lemonade and ice-cream and
some such things as / have mentioned,
and earn lots of money. Last Fourth
of July | had a lemonade and ice-cream
stand. and earned some money. Some
boys learn how to swim, and some save
lives. Some boys steal til ngs and get
arrested, and their parents have TO bail
them out. Some boys are cruel to ami
mails. Some boys come to school with
shoes and stockings off and their hair
uncombed, and are not neat The
teacher does not Ike this so she makes
them look neat. Some bows stay home
and take care of the garden and the
baby, and some boys run away and get
into mischief. Some get hurt. Once
in the week vacation | went with
Sylvester Bennett to play in some sand.
1t was in winter. We came in his
yard, and there was some ice on the
ground, and he took an ak and began
chopplng it. | went to pick it and he
struck me in the eye with the back of
the AK. This was an accident He
cried and | did. Once l was coming
home from school. / jumped on a
milk-wagon. When jumped lost my
| balance and fell fiat in a mud-hole.
Boys are not SO good, kind, gentle, and
stupid as girls are.
A boy is a small biped, not very
large, but they are large enough to be
in m schief. In summer most of the
boys steal all the fruit they can and
chew tobacco and smoke it, and fight
and swear, and curse, and tell lies, and
are lazy and saucy and sulkv and are
proud. In school they whisper and
play and do not like to study when the
teacher is not looking; and most of
them come with dirty hands and faces,
and they dirty up the yard and build
inc and run away. The boys play ball,
polo, shiny, racing, flying kites, horse,
switch, bull-in-the-ring. hde-and-go-
seek, tag chasing, trapping. jumping,
running, swimming. At home some
boys sauce their mother and don't want
to do any errands for their mother. I
have seen some boys ask their mother
for a cent, and if they will not give
them one they will begin to sing and
laugh and jump. In winter they will
be crying for sleds. A boy asked me
for a match to light pipe. and l told
him his match was on the state farm.
Boys are always into mischief -ProUi-
dence journal.